Crops

Date: [ca1895-1920]

Reference: PAColl-6759

Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: [1896-1913]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1601

Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1951 - 1957

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand. Department of Agriculture. Seed Testing Station; Moss, Geoffrey Robert, 1926-

Reference: Eph-B-BOTANY-1950s-01

Description: Includes an envelope for a seed sample, a pink record card, three certificates of analysis (for 1951, 1952 and 1957), a certificate of pedigree, classification sheets and working sheets, a chart of seed vitality, a list of crop seeds, and a grass seed price list from Hodder & Tolley dated May/June 1952. Seed testing was carried out by around 100 staff working at the Department of Agriculture in Palmerston North. Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescript, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Geoffrey Moss, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1900-1904, 1929-1930

From: MacDonald family : Papers

Reference: MSY-6382

Description: Journal kept by John Leonard MacDonald. Records daily activities, crops planted, weather conditions and includes diagrams of areas planted with names of neighbouring properties. At back list of [poems?] sent to ChCh Sun Dec 1929; list of photo negatives (Mokau) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [Jan] 1941-5 Oct 1943

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-23

Description: Includes notes on clothing and footwear, lists of inward and outward mail and parcels (including dates sent and received and remarks on contents). Crops, books, and other miscellaneous subjects are also listed. Mason includes quotations of 'pithy English' [from books read while imprisoned ?]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 24 Sep-6 Oct 1992 - 24 Sep 1992 - 06 Oct 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Gemmell, Kenneth William, 1917-2013

Reference: OHInt-0081/03

Description: Ken Gemmell was born in Oamaru on 17 March 1917. Briefly outlines his family background from the arrival of his grandfather Joe Gemmell from Scotland about 1860 and settlement near the Kakanui River. Notes that this became known as Gemmell's Crossing. Talks about the sale of the family farm and starting work with New Zealand Loan and Mercantile during the Depression. Notes the merger of New Zealand Loan and Mercantile with Dalgety. Outlines his career largely in the tractor and farm machinery department from 1933 to 1974. Part of this interview is a structured interview and part of it was prepared and narrated by Ken Gemmell on his own initiative. Comments on farming change in the Lower Waitaki Plains. Talks about the transition from sheep and crops to dairying. Comments on the effect on stock firms. Discusses other factors in the decline of stock firms including the increasing role of vets, banks and Combined Rural Traders in areas which traditionally belonged to stock firms. Talks about climate change, its effect on grain growing and new crops such as sunflowers. Recalls the stock sales of the 1950s and 1960s. Comments on the role of small service towns and farm hospitality in that era. Venue - Oamaru : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005497; OHC-005498; OHC-005499 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1101. Photocopies of photographs of Ken Gemmell about 1967; at Government House in 1988; newspaper articles in 1967 and 1973

Date: 1956

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-106

Description: Shows three men and one woman hatching a plan to stop thieves from stealing the crops on their farm. They are each holding a weapon and behind them stands a dog and an angry bull The words 'No. 237, 5 April '56' are written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1985

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Pacific Films Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-CINEMA-1985-01

Description: Flier promoting a feature length documentary film concerning responsibility for crop plant genetic resources. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on flier, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6957

Description: Views of four different homesteads and the agricultural land surrounding them. They include images of the families who lived in the houses and of farming work. The houses or families are Timburn, Hunt-Fork Farm, Orbells, and McKenzie's of Ryeburn. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058251 to 058286 and 058293 to 058328 Quantity: 72 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1939 - 1942

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning the environment and environmental protection]

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-ENVIRONMENT-1940-01

Description: Flier pays tribute the the efforts of farmer Arthur Kent of Remuera to encourage farmers to diversify their crops. Rye-grass was widespread and full of the ergot fungus, which adversely affected human and animal health, causing paralysis, gangrene, blindness, deformities, insanity, abortions, etc. Dr Williams also recommends reading his own book "Hints on healthy living". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print on flier, 340 x 150 mm.

Date: 1925-1926

By: Hugh and G K Neill (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0374

Description: Series of photographs of crop and pasture samples laid out in beds by the Department of Agriculture Field Division at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition. Also included are photographs of indoor displays on beekeeping, New Zealand insects, wool, and developments in veterinary medicine. There is also a photograph of the exhibition area at night and a postcard of the gardens leading to the exhibition's Grand Court addressed to a Miss Dickie. The photographer was Hugh and G K Neill. Quantity: 183 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957 - 1959

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1958-01

Description: A single sheet calendar (with the calendar part removed) shows a montage of pictures by E Mervyn Taylor, of various scenes of Maori involved in cultivation of the kumara and the tools used: ko, wauwau, timo. Also discusses he site of the kumara plantation, planting time, care of the growing crop, harvesting, the kumara store, and the "kumara gods". These are explained more fully on the attached fact sheet, which also gives some biographical information about Mervyn Taylor. The biographical information about Mervyn Taylor suggests that the (now removed) calendar was dated around 1958. The help of Mr M Rotohiko Jones and Mr Hemi Bennett in checking the information is acknowledged at the bottom of the attached fact sheet. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, on sheet originally with attached calendar, cropped to 450 x 338 mm, and black and white sheet of text overlaid, attached at top by metal bar and loop

Date: [ca 10 Feb 1948]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8602-55

Description: Horse with a cart load of hay or straw, at Lincoln College, Canterbury. Photograph taken circa 10 February 1948, by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Not known when, or if, this was published in the New Zealand Free Lance Inscriptions: Verso - Rcd 10/2/48 Getting ready for the job after lunch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.8 x 20.5 cm

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Donor unknown: Agricultural training

Reference: 1/4-028849-G

Description: World War 1 veterans receiving agricultural training at an unknown location, circa 1920. Looks across a cultivated field towards hills in the background. Shows a group of men in the centre, tending crops. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [191-?]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005343-G

Description: Sign advising on the productive feeding of farm animals. Lists the moisture and digestibility of particular crops. Photograph taken by Steffano Francis Webb for the Department of Agriculture. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - The Depart Agriculture 1356B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1946

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091109-F

Description: Haymaking and baling with a tractor at Morgan's farm, Aratapu. Photographed in 1946 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: [ca 1915-1920]

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-026657-G

Description: Sacks of hops being piled on to a horse drawn cart, Nelson, circa 1915-1920. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carting hops at Nelson. N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.N. Jones Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1946

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091108-F

Description: Haymaking and baling at Morgan's farm, Aratapu. Photographed in 1946 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1946

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091110-F

Description: Haymaking and baling at Morgan's farm, Aratapu. Photographed in 1946 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1988

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: Eph-D-EMPLOYMENT-1988-03

Description: Shows a photograph of fruit and vegetables arranged in a field to read the word ACCESS. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 420 x 595 mm.